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Memorial services conducted
BATON ROUGE. La. tAP) A
memorial service for the two black
students slain at Southern University
drew 400 people to the steps of the state
capitol yesterday as two independent
commissions prepared to begin full
scale investigations of the Nov. 16 police
student confrontation at the school.
State officials and school ad
ministrators, meanwhile, countered
threats of continued turbulence with
pleas for calm as they prepared to
resume classes at Southern’s smaller
New Orleans branch for the first time
since the tragedy 90 miles to the north.
About 400 blacks assembled for the
hour-long rally. Leaders said it was in
memorial for the two dead students.
John E Brown, who told the crowd he
had organized the event, said, “The very
existence of the black race today is
Ihreatened “
Brown said several national civil
rights leaders had been invited to speak,
but he said none were able to attend.
Focal point for the activity was the 30
minutes of violence on Nov. 16 which
University funds
By KEN CHESTER
Collegian Senior Reporter
Dissent by state Senate members of
the conference committee examining
Penn State's budget request again has
stalled passage of University funds.
House members of the committee last
week signed a report which left Penn
State's $2 million intact, but none of the
three senators on the committee would
sign the report because the University of
Pittsburgh and Temple University did
not receive the same addition.
Sources in the Senate said the
disagreement may mean removal of
Penn State's extra funds or the addition
of $2 million to Pitt and Temple.
The Daily Collegian reported last
Tuesday the bills would be reported
from the committee that day, but with
the opposition from Senate members of
the committee, it appears the bills will
not be voted on until Wednesday or
Thursday, when the legislature plans to
recess
Committee Chairman Rep. James J.
A Gallagher, D-28th, said the con-
Abortion bill to Gov.
HARRISBURG, Pa (AP) Gov.
Milton Shapp is faced with perhaps the
most difficult decision of his political
career as the 1971-72 legislature moves
into its final week.
Sitting on the governor's desk is the
stormy abortion bill passed over
whelmingly by the legislature. Shapp
The Pennsylvania chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union has
taken a strong stand against the abortion
bill currently on Gov. Shapp’s desk,
according to Spencer Cox, Executive
Director of the chapter.
Cox stated that this bill will not stop
abortion, but will merely prevent women
from having abortions in a legal and
medically proper way. The ACLU has
urged all interested citizens to telegraph
Shapp requesting him to veto the bill.
has asked that the bill be recalled until
the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the
constitutionality of abortion.
Supporters of the bill, however, say it
will not be recalled. This forces Shapp to
veto the measure, permit it to become
law without his signature, or sign it.
He has not yet given any public in
dication of which course he will take and
the abortion issue has stirred up a
hornets’ nest of opinion and charges.
One member of the legislature said he
will oppose Shapp for governor in 1974 if
he vetoes the bill.
Collegian
the
daily
Photo by Joe Rudick
Tree removal problems among other difficulties have delayed the opening
of the nearly completed East Wing of Pattee. Complicated construction
plans involving a computer formulated Critical Path Scheduling Plan
contributed to the delay. Computer planning had not previously been used
for construction on campus. The new wing, known as the Phase I Research
Library, is expected to be opened within the next two months and will be
dedicated next spring.
exploded as officers chased students
from Southern's administration
building. Denver A. Smith of New
Roads, La., and Leonard Douglas
Brown, Bilbert, La., both 20, were
sprayed with buckshot and died of head
wounds.
Authorities contended at the start that
officers fired nothing but tear gas.
Later, however, they conceded that an
officer could have mistaken a shotgun
cartridge for tear gas cartridge.
Only the 12-member commission
appointed by the state’s attorney
general, William Guste, could boast
legal status and at least access to sub
poena powers.
But organizers of the Black People’s
Committee of Inquiry, outwardly
skeptical of the official investigation,
said they, too, would make their findings
available to authorities.
The Baton Rouge campus was ordered
closed through the first of the year to let
tempers cool, but state and school of
ficials decided to reopen the New
Orleans branch after a 10-day break,
ference committee will meet tomorrow
to discuss the bill He predicted an
agreement will-be reached then.
“The committee is looking at the
amounts of money appropriated,”
Gallagher said. He would not say what
the committee might decide about Penn
State’s $2 million addition.
Rep. H. Jack Seltzer, Republican
member of the conference committee
explained the original report included
the same total amounts as originally
passed in the House. That includes a $2
million addition to the Penn State bill but
not to Pitt or Temple as agreed to in the
Senate.
The only other change was in the
language of the Snyder amendment,
added in the Senate but not the House.
The amendment would require each
state related university to make a report
to the General Assembly on the teaching
workloads of all faculty members.
A source close to committee members
said last week the reworded amendment
would read “(each university) shall
submit an analysis” of faculty
If the bill becomes law, abortions in
Pennsylvania will be legal only if a
three-doctor panel judges the mother’s
life would be endangered by continued
pregnancy.
Rep. Martin Mullen, D-Phila., the
author of the bill, predicted that Shapp
would veto the bill and said he will op
pose Shapp in 1974 if Shapp does so.
“I don’t want to be governor,” the 51-
year-old lawmaker said, “but if Mr.
Shapp kills the bill and the legislature
doesn’t come up with a two-thirds
majority to overturn him, I’ll have to
take my case to the people.”
Mullen said his strong conviction on
the issue stemmed from his belief that
“there is a life in the womb from the
time of conception.”
There is also pressure on the governor
to veto the bill.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society
called the measure “too restrictive from
a medical standpoint,” urging that
Shapp kill the measure.
Dr. Robert S. Sanford,president of the
12,000-member society, said the bill does
not permit patient- and doctor to use
medical judgments in "determining if an
abortion should be permitted.
Shapp has reportedly promised Mullen
that, if it comes down to it, he would veto
the measure before Nov. 30 so
lawmakers would have the chance to
override him. The current legislature
adjourns at midnight Nov. 30.
despite threats of “some hell down
there.”
Gov. Edwin Edwards announced over
the weekend the security force at New
Orleans would be beefed up for the
resumption of classes, but he discounted
warnings from dissidents and said he
believes the majority of the students
want to return to their studies.
Students have demanded more of a
voice in the administration of the
nation’s largest black university, and
have called for the resignation of the
school’s 65-year-old president, G. Leon
Netterville.
Two Southern New Orleans students
are on the attorney general’s in
vestigating commission, as are Revius
Ortique, a black New Orleans attorney
and former member of the President’s
Commission On Campus Unrest,
Jackson and two other blacks.
Federal authorities are conducting an
investigation of their own U.S. Atty.
Douglas Gonzales said copies of films
made during the clash have been sub
poenaed and will be used if needed.
stalled
workloads The original amendment
asked for names of faculty members
teaching less that 12 hours a week and an
explanation of the small workload.
Sen. Richard A. Snyder, sponsor of the
"amendment and a member of the con
ference committee, explained both
House and Senate members agreed to
this change.
Snyder confirmed the only
disagreement was on the fact that Penn
State got a $2 million addition but Pitt
and Temple didn’t. As a result, no
senators signed the report.
He would not speculate whether the
difference would be corrected by adding
money for Pitt and Temple or removing
funds from Penn State. He said it was
possible neither alternative would be
chosen and the bills would be approved
in the current form.
Snyder mentioned the possibility that
no agreement will be reached and the
bills will sit until January to be taken up
by the new legislature.
Equal opportunity plan foreseen
By GINNY BENTZ
Collegian Junior Reporter
Penn State’s response to a federal
report indicates the University will
take further affirmative action to
equalize job opportunities for
women and minorities.
The response was released to the
public last Monday with a report
resulting from a six-month review
of University employment practices
by the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare. The review
came after a complaint by the
Women’s Equity Action _ League
charged the University with
discrimination under an executive
order.
The report, which is now
available to the public at Pattee,
indicates the University’s actions to
eliminate discrimination have not
adequately met its obligations to
employ women and minorities.
University President John W.
Oswald said HEW found the
University was not in non
compliance with federal legislation
and executive orders, but that
compliance was not totally
adequate in some areas. HEW
recommended that “the University
intensify its efforts to increase
representation of women and
Nixon, Kissinger talk
NEW YORK (AP) President Nixon,
described as confident of the “right
kind” of Vietnam peace settlement,
resumed conferences on the recessed
Paris talks yesterday with his chief
negotiator, Henry Kissinger.
Nixon and Kissinger met for almost an
hour yesterday morning at the Waldorf
Astoria, where the President and his
family were spending the weekend. It
was the second meeting since Kissinger
returned from Paris late Saturday night
after he and North Vietnamese
negotiators agreed to break off the talks
for nine days.
Nixon was scheduled to return to his
mountain top retreat at Camp David,
Md., later in the day, while Kissinger
was expected to go on to Washington.
The two will confer again Monday at
Camp David, a White House spokesman
said.
Ronald Ziegler, the presidential press
secretary, also said Nixon and Kissinger
would meet this week with Nguyen Phu
Due, an emissary of South Vietnamese
President Nguyen Van Thieu. The exact
time of the meeting was not set.
The meeting was requested by Thieu
last week and has been seen by some
observers as an effort to bypass
Kissinger, who has been criticized by the
South Vietnamese for not paying enough
attention to their objections to the peace
proposals.
The Paris meetings between Kissinger
and Hanoi’s Le Due Tho were suspended
until Dec. 4 on Saturday amid some
speculation that serious difficulties had
arisen. American officials would not
comment on the cause of the in
terruption, which came after six
sessions.
South Vietnam’s special observers at
the talks were reported to have told
Thieu that negotiations were “virtually
deadlocked over North Vietnamese
troop withdrawals.’’ A Saigon
newspaper controlled by Thieu’s In
dependence Palace quoted a “high
source’’ as saying no optimistic signs
WEAL files complaint
The University has been charged with
harassment in a complaint filed
Saturday with the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare by
National Women’s Equity Action League
President Norma Raff el.
Ms. Raffel said if substantiated this
could lead to the cancellation of federal
contracts with the University.
The complaint states that Ms. Raffel’s
husband, Marshall Raffel, was removed
from his positions as director of the
Division of Biological Health and head of
the faculty in Health Planning and
Administration in the College of Human
Development on Sept l because she
coordinated information for HEW
during its recent investigation of the
University. __
The complaint said the action was
taken without prior warning or faculty
consultation and cited a memorandum
sent to Donald H. Ford, dean of the
college, by the faculty in Health
Planning and Administration stating
“the faculty does not feel that a
reasonable explanation for the removal
of the division director has been given.”
Ford said yesterday “Professor Raffel
has not been fired." He said a
reassignment of Raffel’s duties took
place on Sept. 1 after Raffel’s work had
been reviewed for more than a year.
“I had conversations with Professor
Raffel specifically focused on
satisfactory and unsatisfactory parts of
his work,” Ford said, adding it is
common practice to have periodic
discussions with faculty members about
their performance and characteristics of
their jobs.
Ford said originally Raffel had both
minorities in its employment,”
Oswald said.
Oswald said based in part on the
University’s own initiative and in
part on the HEW review and newly
published federal guidelines, the
University is strengthening its
affirmative action program in
several ways.
—A full-time Affirmative Action
Office staffed by two professionals
and supporting personnel is being
established to oversee employment
at the University.
The office, which will make sure
affirmative action policies are
followed and obligations to employ
women and minorities are met, as
well as handle employe complaints
of discrimination, will be respon
sible to University Provost Russell
E. Larson in the Office of the
President, according to Oswald.
In addition, the office will be
responsible for keeping the
University community informed
about state and federal regulations
regarding equal employment op
portunities.
“Recruitment for (the office’s)
leadership is underway,” Oswald
said. A recent announcement in the
Penn State Reportersaid one of the
new positions “will be responsible
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had been seen in Paris
Kissinger and Tho refused comment
on a Washington Post story that said the
talks were deadlocked by an American
refusal to honor the tentative agreement
reached last month. However, Ziegler,
when asked if interruption of the talks
indicated serious problems, said, “I’d be
very cautious about that kind of
speculation.” He said the break would
allow further consultations with South
Vietnam.
Tho was scheduled to remain in Paris
until the talks resumed.
The White House said Kissinger
planned to return to Paris on Dec. 3.
Talk halt may mean
stop to concessions
WASHINGTON (AP) - The in
terruption in the Paris peace talks may
mean the United States has decided to
tell South Vietnam no more concessions
can be gained on its behalf, some ad
ministration sources say.
If the talks between Henry A.
Kissinger and Le Due Tho had reached
an insurmountable barrier, the
negotiations would have been broken off
indefinitely as in the past, not
rescheduled for Dec. 4, the sources
stated yesterday.
They listed several factors leading to
the conclusion that the interruption was
sought by Kissinger in order to pass the
word to Saigon that nothing more is left
to be done
—The White House has said
repeatedly and publicly that further
consultations with Saigon are necessary
before a final agreement can be signed.
—A main problem in the Paris talks
was Saigon’s demand for a formal North
Vietnamese pledge to withdraw all its
troops from the South.
administrative and teaching respon
sibilities and is now doing full-time
teaching and research. He said the Sept.
1 date for the change was selected at
Raffel’s request.
Raffel said he first was notified about
the change in August when Ford said he
wanted to make progressive changes in
the college and remove Raffel from his
positions.
“It came to me as a bolt out of the
blue,” Raffel said.
About two and a half years ago Raffel
said there were some disagreements
among administrators in the college
about the nursing program. He noted
that he commented at the time, “maybe
I should just head Health Planning and
forget about the Biological Health
directorship.”
Raffel said the disagreements were
resolved and shortly after he got a
substantial salary increase. He said
there was no mention of the
disagreements in an evaluation of his
work made a year and a half ago.
Raffel said Ford refused to go into
reasons for his removal, and when
pressed said it was mainly nursing.
“Nobody discussed specifics,” Raffel
said.
Ford discussed the reasons in such a
general way, Raffel said, that it was
hard to tell if they had any substance or
not.
“In’my view there was no substance
because the reasons were untrue,”
Raffel said.
Ms. Raffel said in the complaint her
husband has performed his job well in
the past four years at the University,
adding he initiated and developed the
for opening up minority com
munities throughout the state for
potential areas of employe
recruitment.”
The chairman of the University
Faculty Senate has been asked to
develop a subcommittee of the
faculty affairs committee to advise
the office, according to Oswald.
—Post-audit procedures are being
established to provide concrete
evidence of good faith efforts to
locate qualified women and
minorities for faculty appointment.
If good faith efforts are shown
lacking, pre-audit procedures will
come into effect to insure proper
steps are taken before an ap
pointment is made.
—As a grievance procedure, two
standing committees are being
established to examine complaints
of discrimination and made
recommendations where ap
propriate. One committee will in
vestigate faculty complaints while
the other will handle complaints
from administrators, staff and
clerical employes. The provost will
insure each committee has minority
and female members.
—A maternity policy in
corporated in the University’s af
firmative action program provides
that benefits, privileges and
Nixon’s meeting with Kissinger came
during what was described as a family
weekend of sightseeing and shopping in
New York. The two appeared grim-faced
Saturday night while talking in view of
photographers Ziegler described the
session as “a good meeting ”
Following the meeting. Ziegler said,
“We are proceeding with a constructive
attitude.” He said Nixon felt it was
important “to achieve a settlement not
just for the short term, but for the long
term.” He said the President is prepared
“to take the time necessary to achieve
that kind of settlement.”
—Kissinger is said to be convinced
that Hanoi is unmovable on this point.
That is why the tentative agreement
disclosed Oct. 26 made no mention of
North Vietnamese troop withdrawals
—Kissinger is said to be convinced
also that other protections built in to the
agreement prohibitions against major
resupplying and manpower
replacements are enough to bolster a
cease-fire.
—Even so, in the face of unexpectedly
determined demands by South Viet
namese President Nguyen Van Thieu,
Kissinger agreed to seek on Saigon’s
behalf more concessions on the troop
issue
—The fact that Tho did not return
home for consultations indicates the
main problem is between the United
States and Saigon
“Putting this altogether,” one official
said, “it could very well mean Nixon has
decided it is time to tell the score" to the
South Vietnamese.
Health Planning and Administration
program m the college and recruited an
“outstanding faculty” for it
“He enjoyed a positive working
relationship and has the support of the
division faculty,” Ms. Raffel said in the
complaint. She noted he had received s'
substantial pay increase each year and
had been granted tenure last July
Since there are no grievance
procedures or criteria by which people
are measured for employment,
promotion or removal as required m
recent Higher Education Guidelines
issued by HEW, her complaint said,
there is no alternative but to appeal to
outside sources to handle the problem.
WEAL's complaint to HEW said
University Provost Russell E. Larson
has been aware of this matter since
September and his response has been
that Dean Ford has the necessary
authority for his actions.
“The University President assured me
by letter that my WEAL activities were
not connected to my husband's
removal," Ms. Raffel said "Neither
(the provost nor the president) would
discuss the specifics of the case "
Ms. Raffel said by their inaction the
University President John W Oswald
and Larson were condoning ad
ministrative decisions that reduce
faculty incentive to obtain money for the
University.
Ms. Raffel asked HEW for immediate
investigation of the harassment and full
use of HEW’s enforcement powers to
remedy the situation —GB
payment will apply to pregnancy in
the same way they apply to other
temporary disabilities
—A policy stating "The
University does not deny em
ployment because of family
relationship” has become a part of
the program so that a woman will
not be denied employment in favor
of her husband. The policy also
states employes who are related
cannot be in positions where one has
a direct line of influence over the
other.
—Staff vacancies will be posted
for the knowledge of the University
community.
‘‘We have examined this (HEW)
report carefully and thoughtfully
because as an institution we are
totally committed to a policy of
nondiscrimination in all of our
activities,” Oswald said. ‘‘We
believe these new policies with
proper implementation will go a
long way toward reaching our goal
of eliminating discrimination in
University employment,” he added.
The University will continue to
confer with HEW for periodic
review and for further development
of adequate compliance with equal
opportunity obligations, Oswald
said.